Rapid7 Vulnerability & Exploit Database

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-7542: Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-7542: Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity

5

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

02/27/2018

Created

03/19/2019

Added

10/31/2018

Modified

10/31/2018

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.8.x through 4.10.x allowing x86 PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and hypervisor crash) by leveraging the mishandling of configurations that lack a Local APIC.

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